On 02/20/2012 11:55 PM, Michael Lewis wrote:
I am back to being confused. I just tried running the module without first
importing it, and it worked just fine. How do I do this properly to where
the module only runs if I import it?
I'd still like a definition of "just fine." But anyway, your first
problem is you somehow added extra quotes to a line that you had right
in an earlier version. Comparing two unequal literal strings will never
prove true. So the dependent clause never runs.
<SNIP>
if "__name__" == '__main__':
GetUserInput()
that should be
if __name__ == "__main__":
do something
else:
do something else
You'll have to decide which one you want to call GetUserInput() from.
You'll then have to decide if you really want to throw away the result.
Just because IDLE dumps something out doesn't mean it'll get printed out
when a person runs the program from a commandline.
At the very least, you want
print GetUserInput()
although most of my earlier arguments might apply someday, once you're
past this stuff. Try inserting temporary prints into the code, so you
can tell what has executed and what has not.
--
DaveA
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